Applying New technologies for safety, surveillance and enforcement at sea
Monday, 30 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Over the last five years, the number of ships calling in Maltese ports has increased by over 18 per cent, reaching almost 6,500 ships, while the corresponding gross tonnage has increased by over 40 per cent. ...
Land Of landfills
Monday, 30 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Do you want to live on the doorstep of a landfill?...
Ta’ Cenc, Not Ta’ Qali
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
The location of Ta’ Cenc is in a sense a bit unfortunate....
Paedophile Priests are Caesar’s responsibility, not God’s
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Where there is true separation of Church and State, in the hearts and minds of the people as well as in their legal and political system, priests are not viewed as being above or beyond the law, and nor is the Church...
What Nags the electorate?
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
There is no denying the fact that during the past months the Gonzi administration has been making strenuous efforts to soften its image. As they try to justify their past performance, its leaders are ...
Trade Unions on a jittery ride
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Better late than never. The Director of the Department of Industrial & Employment Relations (DIER), Dr Noel Vella, had his first report as registrar of trade unions – showing the state of the nation’s trade union...
Nurturing Home-grown innovation
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
One of the often-repeated mantras chanted by the Ministry for IT is that one of the primary goals is to make Malta an IT hub. Over the past few years we have heard the Ministry announce a number of new projects....
A Moment In Time: A dose of Double Dutch and Doctor at Large
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The Dutch seem to have an innate gift for trying to be smarter than the rest of us in Europe – and I don’t just mean the amazing engineering structures they have built known as dykes, or their human equivalent so ...
How To spend Lm250 million
Sunday, 29 January 2006, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
The journey that takes me from Attard to Sliema almost every working morning includes a perfunctory trip around Malta’s costliest ever infrastructural project – the Mater Dei Hospital. ...